Cheese-eating surrender monkeys

A throwaway line from The Simpsons episode "'Round Springfield" (production code 2F32, airdate 30-Apr-95).1 In this scene, Bart has been sent to the school nurse's office with a stomachache (that will turn out to be appendicitis).

This epithet has seen increased usage among conservative columnists as the the level of anti-French sentiment has risen in the United States. Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large of the National Review Online, claims personal responsibility for the wider currency of this defamation.